Expect
merchants of death to keep profiting hugely. Expect corrupt
politicians to get their share. Expect America's most disadvantaged
to be left increasingly on their own out of luck.

Safety
net protections are on the chopping block for elimination. In 2014,
expect more erosion. Republicans and Democrats agreed. So did Obama.

He
spent his entire tenure shifting wealth disproportionately to Wall Street,
war profiteers, other corporate favorites, and super-rich elites.

He's
a job destroyer, not creator. He's doing nothing to stop offshoring
many of America's best jobs. He's letting them be replaced with low
pay/poor or no benefit ones.

He's continuing
America's race to the bottom.
He's got more of the same in mind. He pretends otherwise. He says one
thing. He does another. He scorns the rights of ordinary people. He's
done it since his Chicago days.

On
November 1, $11 billion in food stamp cuts over three years took
effect. It's the first time since Franklin Roosevelt instituted
the first Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). It began
in May 1939.

The
program ended temporarily when conditions warranting it no longer
existed. In 1959, Eisenhower reinstated it.

Since
2008, recipients increased over 70%. Perhaps 80% by end of 2014. It
comes at a time hunger in America is growing.

Privately
run food banks are more than ever hard-pressed. A previous article
discussed AP
headlining
"Exclusive: Signs of Declining Economic Security." It said:

"Four
out of 5 US adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or
reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives."

It's
a disturbing "sign of deteriorating economic security and an
elusive American dream."

"Survey
data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly
globalized US economy, the widening gap between rich and poor, and
loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend."

Government
data are manipulated to distort. Conditions are much worse than
reported. America is the United States of Unfairness, Cruelty,
Inequity, and Injustice.

Throughout
Obama's tenure, things got worse, not better. Ordinary Americans
today suffer more than at any time since the Great Depression.

Year
2014 promises worse. Increased austerity assures it. Imagine
force-feeding it when vital aid is needed more than ever since the
1930s. Imagine anti-populism becoming official US policy.

Imagine
Obama and Congress mandating it. Imagine them leaving America's most
disadvantaged hung out to dry.